Tapes from the dark side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality.

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On February 29th, 2016, Otto Warmbier made his speech, and we have now heard the entirety

of that speech.

All of the general facts seem to be correct.

The names, dates, addresses, but this isn't what interests us.

It's the wild claims that Otto makes.

And I want to go through them with you

one by one. The first and most obvious is the awkward phrasing that Otto uses terms such as

crime task and crime commitment. Now there is actually an explanation for this, aside from the obvious

theory that the speech was written for him, which is that most of the people in attendance

at the hearing or speech or whatever you want to call it were North Korean. Now, some of them

were also Chinese. A couple were from Russia and a few were from Japan. But on the other

hand, North Koreans are taught English from an early age, and so it's likely that those in

attendance, even if they were a Korean, could understand Otto. And so we're left with the likely

explanation that the speech was written in advance by someone

other than Otto.

Now let's get to the meat of Otto's story, this bizarre claim that the Friendship United

Methodist Church, located in Wyoming, Ohio, was somehow in league with the CIA in that

a deaconess and her son convinced Otto over a friendly dinner

to travel to North Korea to steal a poster to hang in this church. Now in return, Otto says that he was

offered a used car worth around $10,000. And in addition to this, if for some reason he was captured and held

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